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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford Paperbacks
- Date of Publication 27 January 1994
- ISBN 9780195633412
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 215x141x15 mm
- Weight 276 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book represents the first systematic attempt to write an ecological history of India. Madhav Gadgil, a professor of ecological sciences, and Ramachandra Guha, a professor of sociology who writes history, present in this volume a collaborative perspective on the subcontinent which is rare, pathbreaking, and overdue.
MoreLong description:
In the first part of the book, the authors present a general theory of ecological history which attempts a paradigm shift from Weberian and Marxian theories of human society. Here they ask under what conditions humans exercise prudence in their use of natural resources; they examine infrastructures, property systems, political ideologies, religions, social idioms and the belief structures that characterize human interactions with resource bases; they analyse the
varieties of social conflict that appear over the exploitation of natural resources; and, finally, they explore the impact of changing patterns of resource use upon human societies.
In the second part the authors provide a fresh interpretive history of pre-modern India. They also provide, in this section, an ecological interpretation of the caste system which adds a significant dimension to existing ideas on caste.
In the third part the authors draw on a huge wealth of source material to offer a socioecological analysis of the modes of resources use which were introduced by the British, and which continued, with modifications, after Independence in 1947. (This is a paperback edition of the HB issued in 1992.)
The narrative's strength is its ability to highlight the two-way interaction between social relations and environmental conditions. The power of this approach is highlighted by the authors' analysis of the evolution of the caste system.
